Re: #35033...Sounds like Lichen Sclerosis!

I am going to go back to the doctor's this coming week because it does not seem to be getting better. I don't know if my symptoms are quite as bad as what you were experiencing, but they are annoying because they will get better but not completly go away. I did have a discharge one time each day for two days and that discharge looked like what I would have when I have a yeast infection, but the main source of irritation is on the outisde, at the very top where my right and left labia meet. At that crease there, the skin became so irritated that it split, almost ike chapped lips. Then the skin thickened and I had little white patches at the top and down the sides. They peeled away with not much of a problem and it made me wonder if it was actually my skin thickening or some sort of fungus growing on my skin. It's disgusting, I know. It did not burn to urinate, but the skin burned and itched most of the other time. I don't have any problems with showering. In fact, I bought a removable shower head and I blast the area with ice water, which makes it feel a thousand times better.

I took benadryls and used yeast creams on the affected area as well as took a three day course of diflucan that my doctor prescribed. The skin is not as red now and the white patches are gone, but I can still feel the irritation there. It cleared up before and came back, so I am worried that it is doing the same this time. I sometimes wonder if doctors know anything at all.

The skin thickening sounds very similar to what I have been experiencing, if that is what my skin was doing. I think that I will ask my doctor to do a bioposy to see if that is what this is. I am 28, by the way, and remember reading about Lichen Scerosis, but didn't know that it could happen at my age. I suppose that anything can happen. I wish the doctors would take me seriously because this is really affecting my personal life with my husband. At this point, I am just so depressed over it because the doctors act like I am a hyperchondiac or that I am overreacting. My poor husband doesn't know what to think. I feel unattractive and disgusting and I don't even want to be touched. I tried to explain this to the doctors, but they didn't seem to understand why I was so upset. I am just wondering if it will ever go away. Tweet